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An Octave Higher

Title
An Octave Higher
AliasesAOH
Play timeShort (8h45m from 11 votes)
DeveloperKidalang
PublishersPLAYISM & Active Gaming Media Inc.
Relations
Prequel

One Small Fire at a Time

LinksWikidata, MobyGames, IndieDB, HowLongToBeat, IGDB, PCGamingWiki, Lutris, VNStat

Description

Explore Overture with Elise, Franz and Frederic as they set on their own paths, each joined by one thing: a broken piano.

This visual novel allows you to explore the world where each person is gifted in different types of magic that has been revolutionized into creating magic machinery. The industry is evolving and the world of this visual novel finds itself on the forefront of technology—at the cost of their own working class. But in a world where magic defines your class, there is unrest in the background and rumors of a revolution are stirring.

Amongst all this magic, there is something that they can’t do: use healing magic on inanimate objects. As Franz does his final year project at school on just that—healing inanimate objects—most people find it a fruitless study. Due to fate, he is able to get financial backing from Frederic’s Dad because of Elise and her desire to fix a broken piano with her healing magic.

Little do the characters know that on the edges of their lives a revolution is brewing that can shake their whole existence and the world of Overture.

Join the adventure in this visual novel, unlike any other visual novel you’ve played before, as you question right and wrong, good and bad and everything in between. Does Overture really need a revolution?

Full reviews

By swordfish96 on 2021-06-16Vote: 6
<report>It did some pretty interesting things; the worldbuilding is very good with an interesting magic system that doesn’t just exist but is studied as a science. It also portrays the way this impacts an industrial revolution era society both from a technological point of view, with magic being a part of various parts of technology such as a primitive computer, as well as a societal sense, with a burgeoning class conflict around access to magic. In addition, the viewpoint rotating between the three protagonists gave the story some variety and perspective. The second half is also an interesting reversal of fortunes and perspectives.

There’s some pretty irritating things about the system; each time... Read more »
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